Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist, Xero
12-month Fixed Term Contract
$121k
Accounting software for small businesses
Be an early applicant
Accounting software for small businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$121k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world.
Role
Who you are
- You bring a proven track record of managing complex, high-volume recruitment across a Tech & Engineering portfolio
- Your deep connection to the local engineering community helps you activate networks and build talent pipelines quickly
- You possess the confidence to influence and partner with senior leaders, providing clarity and momentum throughout the hiring process
- A data-driven mindset allows you to use pipeline health and market intelligence to guide strategic decision-making
- You demonstrate a candidate-first approach, ensuring every person experiences a respectful, engaging, and transparent journey
- Comfort in navigating ambiguity and building new processes as you go will be essential for success in this scaling our team
- Apply even if your experience isn't a perfect match! At Xero, we hire based on your skills, passion, and the unique perspective you can bring to enhance our culture and team
What the job involves
- You will join a Talent Experience (TX) team that focuses on making hiring human, data-driven, and genuinely impactful
- Working closely with the local leadership and the global engineering TX partners, you will collaborate to run hiring events, assessment days, and community meetups that put Xero on the map
- Executing through proactive sourcing and high-velocity hiring events
- Building and managing robust pipelines for engineering and technical roles to meet ambitious growth targets
- Partnering with senior engineering stakeholders to refine role requirements and maintain a consistent hiring bar
- Utilising recruitment data and funnel insights to improve sourcing efficiency and candidate conversion rates
Our take
For a long time, high-quality financial services have been reserved for large-scale businesses. Xero solves this problem by giving small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers access to best-in-class finance and accounting solutions.
Xero is one of the largest companies of its kind, with its promise to save time and effort for small business owners - who often don’t have in-house accounting teams - capturing interest and allowing the company to scale. It has a strong rival in Intuit QuickBooks, which offers similar services, but competes by being most effective for growing startups, and having an incredibly simple user experience.
A series of acquisitions and partnerships, including the purchase of Instafile in 2018, have consolidated Xero’s market share. The company continues to add new integrations, such as with Vehocheck Workshop Manager, and the 2023 launched Beautiful Business Fund that will help small businesses accelerate growth.
Steph
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Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington
Leadership
Prior to Xero, she founded Boardlist and Joyus. She also served as the CEO of Polyvore and as a President of Asia Pacific and Latin America Operations at Google.
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